MATTHEWS: But if you look at all the fundamentals in the employment rate, the debt, the deficit, the price of things, why do you say it’s fundamentally sound? Why is it? It looks to me like it’s getting worse.

PFOTENHAUER: First of all, the problems that you identify are real, and they’re challenges that Sen. McCain talks about every single day on the campaign trail, Chris.

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In fact, neither McCain nor his party talks about the fundamentals of the economy with any regularity. A review of the over 38,000 words in the three days of prepared speeches at the Republican National Convention discovers near-complete silence about those economic fundamentals:

The only mention of “unemployment” comes from multimillionaire investment banker Mitt Romney, who claimed that “higher taxes, bigger government, and less trade” would lead to “moribund growth and double-digit unemployment,” supposedly “the same path Europe took.” The only mention of “inflation” also came from multimillionaire investment banker Mitt Romney: “Is government spending – excluding inflation – liberal or conservative if it doubles since 1980? — It’s liberal!”

Of course, it was primarily under the fifteen years of the conservative Reagan and Bush presidencies that government spending doubled. Under the progressive leadership of Bill Clinton, we reduced unemployment, increased trade, and constrained government spending while raising taxes on the rich. Under Bush, we’ve had “moribund growth” and increased unemployment. But conservatives want the American public to believe their lies instead of the liberal bias of reality.